PT-2017-16597 · Profanity · Profanity

Published 2017-02-09 · Updated 2020-01-23 · CVE-2017-5592

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Profanity versions 0.4.7 through 0.5.0

Description The issue is related to an incorrect implementation of XEP-0280: Message Carbons in multiple XMPP clients. This allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display, enabling various kinds of social engineering attacks.

Recommendations For versions 0.4.7 through 0.5.0, update to a version that correctly implements XEP-0280: Message Carbons to prevent impersonation and social engineering attacks.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Origin Validation Error

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-346

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5592

Affected Products

Profanity

References · 12

• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons · Exploit
• 🔥 https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf · Exploit
• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5592 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5592 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5592 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5592 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96173 · Note